Sharland is the Co-founder at AppSense and serves as Chairman. Prior to AppSense, he founded Vistorm, an information security and infrastructure services provider, growing it from a startup to a $50 million company over ten years. Vistorm was recently acquired by EDS. Before starting Vistorm, he spent 10 years with large technology companies such as HP and Sun Microsyste He serves as the Chairman at Silicon:Safe. Charles joined the board of Silicon Safe in December 2015 as chairman with a view to helping to create an important and disruptive technology in the cyber security space. Charles is also founder and chairman of AppSense Technologies, the leading user experience and endpoint security player. Charles built Appsense into a global brand in the enterprise space as CEO over eight years. Prior to Appsense, Charles founded Vistorm, an enterprise managed security operation which was acquired by HP.